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Baptist Church at Star. We go every Sunday as regular as we can. Not
havin no car makes us go on the truck, but we piles the younguns i nand
goes right ahead.

"We give towards the church whatever we can, it ain't never much, but
we do our best. Preachin is the minister's work and he has to be paid the
same as the rest of us. Sometimes I give groceries, or Anne bakes a cake
for a dinner or a social, but we can't always do that, when we want to.
They like for Anne to bake cakes for socials for she's sech a good cake-
baker.

"We are tryin to raise our children up to be good church members.
Seems like the world needs a lot of that today. I mean more real religion
and love for each other in it. While there is so much hatin and dishonesty
goin on, it ain't no wonder there's fightin and trouble everywhere.

"I think the church is mighty important, and bein a member and havin
that responsibility helps lots of people to keep steady and behave right.
Maybe we can't always like everybody in the church and sometimes even the
minister don't even suit us, but we ain't in the church for a club, we
gotta keep adoin for the Lord's sake. That's another thing I admires in
President Roosevelt, he goes to church and he prays too, and he ain't afraid
to speak of God when he talks to us people. Yes, mam, he's right!"
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